Michael Bay

It’s the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by the Imperial Japanese Navy, severely damaging the U.S naval fleet, killing more than 2,400 Americans, injuring nearly 1,200 more and directly leading to the United States’ entry into World War II. Today, do this: […]
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You want to know what kind of weekend it was at the box office. A brand new movie opened up with a $51 million bow, wildly beating industry expectations …… and still only came in second place. Yes, Iron Man 3 continued its domination of the movie charts, adding $72.4 million to its profits for […]
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Michael Bay‘s based-on-a-true-crime actioner Pain & Gain topped the weekend box office with a middling $20 million to lead a rather sluggish weekend. Poorly reviewed (surprised?) and starring two Hollywood heavyweights – Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson – the overall budget was only $26 million. That’s the good news. The bad? $20 million isn’t an […]
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Yes, I don’t want to miss a thing, but apparently I will – we all will – by about 17,150 miles. That’s close in space, um … space. The asteroid discovered by one of the finest scientific minds of our time, a Spanish dentist, will hurtle past our vulnerable planet sometime today. Every bit of […]
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I’m never a big fan of the “snubs and surprises” conversations that always follow award nominations announcements. Despite all the lobbying, pressure, blackmail collusion, etc., that goes on, these are not decisions made by committee. They are based on individual votes and while some conspiracy theorists want to blame it all on groupthink, it just […]
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon: I’ll admit it: I never watched the ’80s TV cartoon that inspired this action series. I was not its target audience. Likewise, I can’t figure myself to ever be in the target audience – or hell, in the audience in general – for a Michael Bay film. But expectations are running high for this […]
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